Hawaii Representative Gene Ward [R]

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HIHB353Intro
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Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to oversee and administer grants to low-income residents, and condominium associations on behalf of lo...
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2025-01-29
To House Public Safety Committee
HIHB286Intro
25%
Updates the Individual Housing Account statute to reflect the current cost of housing down-payments more accurately.
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2025-01-29
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.
HIHB357Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to strengthen existing hurricane shelters and develop new hurri...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee
HIHB455Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program. Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program special fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program. Appropriates funds.
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB572Intro
25%
Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services.
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB643Intro
25%
Establishes short-term management initiatives for the coconut rhinoceros beetle response program. Appropriates funds for activities and positions related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control.
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2025-01-29
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward.
HIHB600Intro
25%
Repeals registration requirements relating to qualifying outofstate medical cannabis patients who are validly registered in other states, United States territories, or the District of Columbia. Repeals language requiring an initial inperson consultat...
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2025-01-29
To House Health Committee
HIHB740Intro
25%
Establishes the Accessory Dwelling Unit Financing and Deed Restriction Program to allocate funds to the counties to provide grants to eligible homeowners or homebuyers to finance construction costs, development costs, and non-reoccurring closing cost...
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2025-01-29
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, La Chica; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Muraoka, Pierick; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.
HIHB714Intro
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Appropriates funds to support educational training programs to expand the State's health care workforce. Allocates funds to the Department of Education for health care certificate programs and classroom renovations for health care training in public ...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To House Health Committee
HIHB883Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii emergency management agency to inventory all designated emergency shelters and their ability to withstand a category one hurricane or higher. Requires Hawaii emergency management agency to publish a publicly available list of shel...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee
HIHB1442Intro
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Establishes the office of entrepreneurship. Authorizes the use of the Hawaii film and creative industries development special fund for a partnership program with the office. Appropriates funds.
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB245Intro
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Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to develop statewide guidelines related to managing heat exposure to protect students' health during outdoor activities. Appropriates fun...
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2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.
HIHB284Intro
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Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met.
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To House Housing Committee
HIHB490Intro
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Requires the Insurance Commissioner to develop comprehensive standards and requirements for condominium associations and developers to obtain property insurance through self-insurance and mutual insurance, and examine and evaluate the feasibility of ...
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB628Intro
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Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a program to award high school diplomas to persons who did not receive a diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services and persons whose high school education was ...
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2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.
HIHB677Intro
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Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with various agencies and upon request of the inmates, to assist inmates in obtaining the inmates' civil identification card, birth certificate, social security card, and oth...
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee
HIHB639Intro
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Requires corporations, organizations, or individuals engaging to commercial transactions or trade practices to clearly and conspicuously notify consumers when the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence chatbot or other technology cap...
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB859Intro
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Establishes an agricultural crime prevention program within the Department of Agriculture to provide grants, education, administrative enforcement, and other services for the benefit of the State's agricultural industry. Clarifies, creates, and stren...
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1197Intro
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Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to utilize student education partnerships to increase the amount of mental health care providers in correctional facilities across the State. Appropriates funds.
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee
HIHB1384Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council. Requires an action plan and reports to the Governor and Legislature by certain dates. Establishes 2 permanent full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions. Authorizes the hiring of consulta...
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB130Intro
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Imposes a cap on charges for searching for, reviewing, and segregating government records under the Uniform Information Practices Act. Provides for a waiver of fees in certain circumstances when the public interest is served by a government record's ...
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2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB877Intro
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Prohibits the erection, placement, construction, or maintenance of an encampment within one hundred feet from the property line of a K-12 public or private school or school facility.
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:35 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee
HIHB879Intro
25%
Increases the maximum grant amount for the Cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project from $20,000 to $30,000. Establishes positions within the Department of Health for the Cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project. Appropriates funds.
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1196Intro
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Establishes a high school law enforcement curriculum-to-career pipeline initiative. Appropriates funds to develop and implement the program.
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1195Intro
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Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requ...
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1226Intro
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Categorizes electric bicycles into three classes based on speed and operation. Requires electric bicycle manufacturers and distributors to apply a label to each electric bicycle. Authorizes county police to confiscate bicycles for certain offenses. I...
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2025-01-27
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1202Intro
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Promotes teacher retention by recognizing prior teaching experience at an equal salary rating for entering or reentering teachers into the Department of Education.
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1225Intro
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Amends the definition of "dangerous to self". Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerous to self and others". Increases the maximum period of emergency hospitalization.
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2025-01-27
To House Health Committee
HIHB1199Intro
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Requires the office of legislative analyst to produce fiscal notes on all fiscal bills. Prohibits a committee from making a decision on a fiscal bill without a fiscal note. Mandates that fiscal notes be made available to the public. Appropriates fund...
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2025-01-27
To House Legislative Management Committee
HIHB1224Intro
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Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requ...
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1198Intro
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Establishes civil liability for any commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally publishes or distributes materially harmful to minors without following certain age verification requirements.
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2025-01-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1201Intro
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Establishes tax credits for insurers providing full property coverage to owners and associations of condominiums in the amount equal to twenty per cent of the insurance premium. Provides additional ten per cent tax credits to insurers incorporated in...
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2025-01-27
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1253Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program to be administered by the Judiciary.
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2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1249Intro
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Requires each public school to develop a disaster and attack preparedness plan by 1/1/2026 that includes shelter-in-place drills. Requires each school to maintain emergency goods sufficient for at least 48 hours in its facilities.
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1242Intro
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Requires the Department of Education to implement a plan for a Hawaiian language immersion school in Kapolei that shall be ready to educate students in grades kindergarten through 12 by the 2028-2029 school year. Appropriates moneys.
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1250Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriated funds for capital improvement projects in the 18th representative district.
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2025-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1241Intro
25%
Requires state agencies to offer individuals who resigned or were dismissed from employment for not complying with vaccination or testing requirements the option to be reinstated, with back pay, to the position that person held prior to their termina...
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2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1272Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Program, to be administered by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board. Appropriates funds.
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1252Intro
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Requires DAGS and DPS, in consultation with the legislature and other entities, to plan and implement security improvements at the state capitol. Requires DAGS to remove all parking meters from the capitol parking facility and reallocate parking in t...
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2025-01-27
To House Legislative Management Committee
HIHB1251Intro
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Establishes a refundable income tax credit to offset the increase in real property insurance premiums for certain properties.
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2025-01-27
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1329Intro
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Requires any state or county department pursuing any major plan or work effort that is likely to significantly affect members of any community to: (1) Conduct a public hearing on the issue, and post notices on the department's website; and (2) Send d...
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2025-01-27
To House Public Safety Committee
HIHB1340Intro
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Establishes strict liability for crimes against elders with respect to the attendant circumstance that the victim was sixty years of age or older.
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2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee
HIHB1342Intro
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Expands programming and training for the comprehensive offender re-entry program under the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the rate of recidivism and increase inmate marketability and workforce readiness. Appropriates funds.
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2025-01-27
To House Public Safety Committee
HIHB1343Intro
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Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours.
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1339Intro
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Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services.
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2025-01-27
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1341Intro
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Establishes tax credits for insurers providing full property coverage to owners and associations of condominiums in the amount equal to twenty per cent of the insurance premium. Provides additional ten per cent tax credits to insurers incorporated in...
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2025-01-27
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1399Intro
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Requires each Department of Education classroom to be equipped with an opioid antagonist. Requires the Department of Education to train employees on opioid-related drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response and opioid antagonist administrati...
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1397Intro
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Prohibits the State and counties from adopting or ordaining any rules, regulations, or ordinances that infringe upon a parent's right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child, except in certain narrowly tailored ci...
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2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee
HIHB1445Intro
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Requires the department of education to equip all classroom doors with interior locks, maintain a public address system, feature an emergency access route, and maintain fire alarms. Mandates the establishment of school emergency plans. Requires schoo...
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2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
HIHB1441Intro
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Creates the offense of organized retail theft. Provides penalties for organized retail theft. Creates an organized retail theft task force.
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2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
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